i got the pattern from the baby sweaters yahoo group before the pattern creator took it out of the group's files to sell the pattern. i love this pattern, it's quick, knits up on big needles, and looks great!

NEEDLE SIZE: 10.5

PATTERN: Popcorn Hooded Sweater by Sandy Miner

STARTED: Sometime in March 2008

FINISHED: the knitting in March, didn't weave in ends and sew on the buttons until today, June 5, 2008

NEEDLE SIZE: 2, 3 (had to drop down 1 needle size in order to get gauge)

VERDICT: I would definitely like to whip up another one out of some other fingering weight yarn that I've got to enter into the local county fair. It's so cute and whimsical. Perfect for a baby girl! Weaving in all the ends is worth it for knitting moments like this!

VERDICT: I forgot to switch needle sizes, so my right glove is fatter than the other. Other than that, this is a quick knit. Great project and a nice way to see variegated roving knit up. Plan to see more of these puppies all finished/knitted up by me!

PATTERN: toe up, stockinette, with a short row heel, and k1p1 ribbing for the cuff; 60 stitches for the foot, 58 stitches for the cuff (resulting in the slight pooling, which I won't do again, just 60 stitches all around from now on!)

VERDICT: I love this yarn! It's soooo soft and easy to knit with. If it weren't for these, I'd seriously need a high dose of some sort of mood downer/stabilizer. By the time I finish school, I just might need it anyway, but for now, I'm hangin' on! The softness of the yarn makes for easy knitting, and I plan to knit up my Rocker Chick colorway Duet socks really, really soon! I knit on these socks during the Winter 2008 Quarter.

PATTERN: My own; 30 stitches across, keep the 2 side stitches on each end in garter stitch, and worked the graphed out pattern I'd made in the middle. Knit one half, put it on a holder, knit the other half, then Kitchener Stitch them together. Worked out well enough for me . . . now to either create or find a suitable poodle pattern for my own scarf!

ETA: I crocheted two rows of short rows to keep the edges from curling in.

I knit this for my good buddy's girlfriend, who happens to be a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.. Their symbol is the dove, so the hap-hazard white stitches surrounding the Z-Phi work well to semi-resemble that. I also knit it as a semi-protest to a lot of the black greek letter - mainly sorority - beefin' that I'd been seeing online. We HAVE to do better. EE - PHI !!!

Did my usual short row heel and 48 stitches around for the foot, 46 stitches around for the cuff. Completed and mailed off using the Automated Postal Service on Sunday so that my aunt can have them on her feet by Tuesday afternoon. :-)

PATTERN: Graphed it all on my own, used the basic hat pattern from the knitter's guide of handy tricks to give me a stitch count, then took it from there

I knit this as a knit-along with my Soror in my Delta Psi Sigma Alumnae (Seattle) Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. It came up to a draw for the winner at the first chapter meeting of the year.